The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.

I understand that I am in an extremely privileged position and I am deeply thankful for that but, at the end of the day, we are all human.

I'm so thankful that I had music to turn to in the dark times and be able to understand myself through it.

It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

One way to understand human progress is to look at how technology has made products and services - once reserved for the elite - progressively more accessible and affordable.

The most exciting part of what I do is understanding the scale of what we don't know. There are just countless archaeological sites all over the world, and one of the most important and best ways of finding them is using digital technology.

I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to.

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.